Definately TMI - I now know what the term OPTI-TROT means :(

So, day 3.... Going good, feeling better until mid afternoon when the pain started.... Let me start by saying that I am very much against going number 2 in public... I will hold it all day, it's just my weird thing. So, I am at work, at my desk when the tummy pain starts and the cold sweats. After much consideration, I realized I would not be able to avoid my strict rule and I would have to use the washroom at work. I go in, thank God no one else is in there and start to use the washroom. A few courtesy flushes later I hear the cleaning lady come in and she stands right in front of my stall!!!! I wait a few seconds and pray she leaves... And she doesn't!! Finally I finish up and try to exit, she is blocking my door!! She tell me she needs in the stall to replace the toilet seat covers!! I don't want her in there after what just occurred but she will not let me do it for her. I ended up apologizing about a million times and telling her that I had a bad stomach but needless to say, I now know what the opti-trots are :(

I for one, laughed so hard at this post!! Because I totally understand everything you went through! I also don't do the "public poop" but lucky for me, we have a handicapped bathroom that's secluded and it's a separate bathroom to it self - not in with the other stalls. I've had the opti-trots too...it's awful!!!!!!!! I remember going to the handicapped bathroom and it was locked...but I didn't want people to know I was going to the bathroom since i'd be longer than a #1 would be. So I brought a notebook and pen with me, except someone from my team followed me since they were going to the bathroom too! so then I pretended I was going into the meeting room for whatever...and when my coworker went into the bathroom, I dashed to the handicapped bathroom...still locked. By this time my stomach and bowels are ready to just give up. Anyway....eventually I made it into the bathroom where someone clearly had the same idea as me, no time to air out the bathroom, I went in breathing into my top and completed my mission.  I know everyone has to #2 and it's nothing to be ashamed of...I just am!

I must be getting old. I found these two account funny. I also had the trots but just went in and did it as quick as possible. For me there would have been no waiting for the best moment. It was immediate. I hope you make it through the rest of your opti okay. Perhaps this will cure you of the shy bowels

LOL. Oh it sucks and hit me on Day 3 as well. Nothing like losing 5 pounds in three days! Hopefully your body gets used to it. Good luck!

It's even awkward walking INTO a bathroom, knowing someone is using a stall. Reminds me back to that story in February at the Sochi Olympics, where the Russian washrooms had two toilets without dividers in the PUBLIC washrooms!! 

I am so glad you guys understand what I was saying!! I was starting to get worried with so many views and no comments!! I thought oh no!! Too much sharing!! Hahahaha

There is NEVER (ok, sometimes not gonna lie, but this wasn't it) too much sharing. ;)